Reiayanmai and MadMan, two sinfesters from way, way, waaaay back. I'm kind of surprised anyone here remembers them... I guess my chronology is mixed up. They met through the forum and dated, had talked about moving in together. They died in a car accident, although the specific circumstances escape me. I think it was SinCon-related, like they were heading home from one, or it was shortly after one, or something. MadMan's dad started frequenting the forum as Mad's Dad some time afterward, just trying to be in touch with part of his son, and he was pretty cool.

But seriously... there are probably three people, including me and Samsally (edit: and Gary makes three!), who were here then. And it wasn't good times.

Some of us are still here,I still think of her/them every time I hear the SOAD song Spiders. I remember the picture of Madman and behind him on the bookshelf were all the copys of the Sandman collections. I remember Rei working at a hotel and calling her one night. It's been a long strange trip my friends.

Yeah. I joined in Feb of 2001. The really weird thing is that the only thing I've been doing longer than coming here is being diabetic - 17 years. No other affiliation has stuck around this long. I don't even really have friends from pre-sinfest. I have some from around the same time, but none longer. Is that sad?

... meh. Whatever._________________"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. Iíll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

Yeah, it must be ten years or something for me? I think it was 2001, so was 18? working in a supermarket, then I moved to Melbourne for a while then uni, supermarket, unemployment, drop out of uni, start working for a theatre, fall in love a million times or so, keep doing theatre, something something. You all are some of the oldest friends I have too, although I am still more or less married to my primary school best friend. We sure have been calling each other douchebags for a long time. There's still a fair few of the crew around too. Mostly the ones who didn't engage too much in fucking each other in real life, a lot of them have gone off to probably have awful sex with other internet people. Man, some of them were fucking awful. And Scara, man he was a fucking tool. Anyway, hugs everyone!_________________Once, at a local NOW meeting where I was the only male among about a dozen women, a feminism trivia contest was held. I came in third.

Yea when I started coming to the forums November of 2000 [keenspot first and not so much here] I was 17 nearing 18 and I had just dropped out of HS for mental reasons. I was working full time as a dishwasher and dating my first gf. Since then I've been through various relationships and I've now been married for 5 years to the love of my life who I've known since I was 6 years old. Maybe that's part of why I do not come here often,so much of my memorys of this place has to do with rage that really time has calmed. Couple more years and I'll be hitting 30...insanity. Oh and if all goes well I'll be a father sometime late end of this year or start of next,her due date is the 31st of December which are notoriously inaccurate.

I started in the chatroom around '02 when I was in college and joined the forum a few months later. I have met some pretty great people through Sinfest, and one or two questionable folks. _________________Eureka00: "Reminding you of your addictions" since 1982.